Women's experiences in the Holocaust : in their own words

Grunwald-Spier, Agnes2018

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This book brings to light women's experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why women's difficulties were different to those of men and how they coped. Men were often taken away and the women were left to cope with children and elderly relatives. In some cases they had to deal with organising departure for a foreign country and making choices about what to take and what to abandon. They would also have to deal with feeding those in their care and with medical issues. They also had to deal with their own physical needs, which could include pregnancies, abortions and, in some camps, medical experiments. Some women wrote diaries and letters dealing with their concerns. Some, like Anne Frank, speculated about growing up. The accounts here include women who fought or worked in the resistance like Zivia Lubetkin, who was part of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Women who were married to non-Jews had varied experiences from support to abandonment. The author herself is a female survivor born in 1944. Her mother struggled to keep her safe in the mayhem of the Budapest Ghetto when she was a tiny baby and dealt with Russian soldiers in her flat after the liberation of Budapest in January 1945 - even cooking a dog when there was no other food. Whilst there are many books about the Holocaust, there are too few specifically about women's experiences.